Editing 2016

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== Events ==
* December 31, 2015 - January 1, 2016 - [[2015–16 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany]]
* January 2 - The [[Workers' Party of Korea]] arrests visiting American student Otto Warmbier for allegedly tearing down a propaganda poster at the hotel he had been staying at.
* January 22 - [[WOMAD]] is founded.
* March 18 - Identity Evropa (later known as the [[American Identity Movement]]) is founded by [[Nathan Damigo]].
* March 22 - The [[2016 Brussels bombings]] take place leaving 32 people dead and 3 terrorists killed with more than 300 people injured. [[The Islamic State]] claimed responsibility for the bombings.
* March 24 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) finds [[Radovan Karadžić]] guilty of [[war crimes]] and [[genocide]] committed during the [[Bosnian War]] and sentences him to life in prison.
* April 6 - [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] is appointed State Counsellor of Myanmar.
* April 6 - Former Massey Energy CEO [[Don Blankenship]] is sentenced to one year in prison for mine safety violations, which resulted in the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in April 2010.
* April 21 - [[Amy Inita Joyner Francis's Murderers|Killing of Amy Joyner-Francis]]
* April 26 - The Venezuelan [[Special Action Forces]] are founded.
* May 12 - The Syrian village of Zara'a in Southern Hama Governorate is captured by [[Al-Nusra Front]].
* May 30 - The Extraordinary African Chambers finds former President of Chad [[Hissène Habré]] guilty of rape, sexual slavery, and ordering the killing of 40,000 people during his tenure as Chadian president and sentences him to life in prison.
* June - [[Patriot Prayer]] is founded by [[Joey Gibson]].
* June 10 - Singer-songwriter Christina Grimmie is [[murder]]ed after a concert in Orlando, Florida by obsessed fan [[Kevin Loibl]], who commits suicide after being attacked by Grimmie's brother Mark, who had also been present.
* June 12 - [[Omar Mateen]] perpetrates the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people and injuring 53 others.
* June 16 - British MP Jo Cox is murdered in Birstall, West Yorkshire by right-wing extremist [[Thomas Mair]].
* June 28 - The [[2016 Istanbul Airport attack]] takes place. Three attackers and forty-five other people are killed, with more than 230 people injured. [[The Islamic State]] claims responsibility for the attack.
* June 30 - [[Rodrigo Duterte]] is elected President of the Philippines.
* July 7 to 8 - [[Micah Xavier Johnson|2016 shooting of Dallas police officers]]
* July 14 - [[Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel|2016 Nice truck attack]]
* July 17 - [[Gavin Eugene Long|2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers]]
* July 22 - 18-year old [[David Sonboly]] goes on a shooting rampage throughout Munich, Germany, killing nine people and injuring 36 in the vicinity of the Olympia Shopping Mall before committing suicide.
* July 26 - [[Satoshi Uematsu|Sagamihara stabbings]]
* July 28 - The [[Houthis]] establish the [[Supreme Political Council]] to serve as the governing body of Yemen.
* August 17 - [[Patrick Nogueira]] murders his aunt, uncle, and two infant cousins.
* August 31 - [[Dilma Rousseff]] is removed as President of Brazil. Vice President [[Michel Temer]] subsequently assumes the presidency.
* September 6 - [[Danny Heinrich]] confesses to the 1989 abduction and murder of 11-year old Jacob Wetterling.
* September 23 - [[Arcan Cetin|Cascade Mall shooting]]
* September 28 - [[Jesse Osborne|Townville Elementary School shooting]]
* October 9 - Beginning of the [[Rohingya Genocide]] in Myanmar.
* October 12 - The [[Antipodean Resistance]] is founded.
* November 8 - [[Donald Trump]] wins the 2016 United States presidential election.
* November 26 - [[Joel Guy Jr|Murders of Joel and Lisa Guy]]
* December 9 - The South Korean National Assembly votes to begin impeachment proceedings against [[Park Geun-Hye]].
* December 9 - [[Yahya Jammeh]] rejects the results of the 2016 Gambian presidential election, refusing to transfer power to President-elect Adama Barrow, forcing Barrow into [[exile]] in neighboring Senegal.
* December 11 - An [[The Islamic State|ISIL]] [[Suicide Bombing|suicide bomber]] bombs the St. Peter and St. Paul's Church in Cairo, killing 29 people amd injuring 47.
* December 22 - End of the Battle of Aleppo.
* Unknown - The [[Proud Boys]] are founded by [[Gavin McInnes]].

== Births ==
===Victim births===
*Unknown - Hanifa Abubakar
*March 15 - Logan Mwangi
*July 5 - [[Abigail Paez and Magdalena Esposito Valenti|Lucio Dupuy]]

== Deaths ==

=== Villain deaths ===
* January 7 - [[Oscar Bolin]]
* January 13 - [[Lawrence Phillips]]
* January 21 - [[Derrick Todd Lee]]
* January 28 - [[Buddy Cianci]]
* February 1 - [[Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores]]
* February 3 - [[Brandon Astor Jones]]
* March 5 - [[Hassan al-Turabi]]
* March 28 - [[Winston Mosely]]
* April 6 - [[Pablo Vasquez]]
* April 22 - [[Ariffin Mohammed]]
* May 4 - [[Jean-Baptiste Bagaza]]
* May 10 - [[Cheng Chieh]]
* May 21 - [[Akhtar Mansour]]
* June 10 - [[Kevin Loibl]]
* June 12 - [[Omar Mateen]]
* June 24 - [[Christy Sheats]]
* July 8 - [[Micah Xavier Johnson]]
* July 10 - [[Abu Omar al-Shishani]]
* July 13 - [[Bernardo Provenzano]]
* July 14 - [[Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel]]
* July 17 - [[Gavin Eugene Long]]
* July 22 - [[David Sonboly]]
* September 2 - [[Islam Karimov]]
* October 3 - [[Ahmad Salama Mabruk]]
* November 3 - [[Clive Derby-Lewis]]
* November 25 - [[Fidel Castro]]
* December 23 - [[Anis Amri]]

=== Victim deaths ===
*January 2 - Nimr al-Nimr
*February 3 - Giulio Regeni
*March 24 - Asad Shah
*April 21 - Amy Joyner-Francis
*April 29 - Hayden Umbenhower
*May 26 - Iana Kasian 
*June 10 - Christina Grimmie
*June 16 - Jo Cox
*July 6 - Philando Castile
*July 7 to 8 - Victims of the [[Micah Xavier Johnson|2016 shooting of Dallas police officers]]:
**Lorne Ahrens
**Michael Krol
**Michael Smith
**Brent Thompson
**Patricio "Patrick" Zamarripa
*July 17 - Victims of the [[Gavin Eugene Long|2016 shooting of Baton Rouge police officers]]:
**Bradford Allen Garafola
**Matthew Lane Gerald
**Montrell Lyle Jackson
**Nicholas Tullier
*July 22 - Victims of the [[David Sonboly|2016 Munich Shooting]]:
**Sevda Dağ
**Hüseyin Dayıcık
**Selçuk Kiliç
**Giuliano Kollmann
**Can Leyla
**Roberto Rafael
**Armela Segashi
**Sabina Sulaj
**Dijamant Zabergja
*August 9 - Colten Boushie 

*August 16 - Louis Gumpenberger
*August 17 - Janaína Santos, Marcos Campos, María and Davi Carolina
*September 23 - Victims of the [[Arcan Cetin|Cascade Mall Shooting]]:
**Sarai Lara
**Chuck Eagan
**Belinda Galde
**Beatrice Dotson
**Shayla Martin
*September 28 - Victims of the [[Jesse Osborne|Townville Elementary School Shooting]]:
**Jacob Hall
**Jeffrey Osborne
*October 14 - Arthur Levy
*November 21 - Emma Walker
*November 26 - Joel Guy Sr.
*November 28 - Lisa Guy